Fire rages through the top floors of a high-rise in Yannawa area, near Sathorn, in Bangkok late Friday morning.(Photos by Pawat Laupaisarntaksin)

At least one person is believed to have been killed and others trapped by a fire raging in a 10-storey building in Bangkok’s Yannawa district on Friday.

The blaze broke out around 10.30am on the eighth floor of the tower on Soi Narathiwat Ratchanakharin 18 and spread quickly to upper storeys as firemen rushed to the scene near the Chan intersection, police said.